Kaiser Wilhelm

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n. grandson of Queen Victoria and Kaiser of Germany from 1888 to 1918; he was vilified as causing World War I (1859-1941)

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William Hohan Zollern, alias Kaiser Wilhelm, to be an outlaw, and offer as a reward for his apprehension three barrels of corn, five bushels of potatoes and meat of ham, said ham to weigh not less than twenty-one pounds nor more than thirty-five pounds.

Hughes, a former top State Department official, diplomat and foundation president, has spent a lifetime adding to a massive collection of memorabilia begun by his great-great-grandfather that documents his family ties to the German and Prussian imperial dynasty, the Hohenzollerns, from the time of Frederick the Great and Kaiser Wilhelm I to Hitler's Third Reich.

Like a piece of shrapnel freshly fallen from the sky, Mr. Libeskind's five-story, 200-ton wedge of steel and glass juts out of the austere neoclassical structure that first opened to the public in 1897 as part of Kaiser Wilhelm I's armory.

The composer created his own festival at Bayreuth, finally achieving his ambition to produce his operas at the Festspiele premiere in 1876, where "Das Rheingold" was performed before an audience of kings, including Kaiser Wilhelm, composers such as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Franz Liszt and at least one philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche.

In 1905, Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm predicted that fifty years hence, the British Empire, that then controlled a quarter of the globe, would vanish into dust and be replaced by two new empires, America and Russia.